skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I also think along the same lines as grandparent, however I would not suggest Android (as you seem to think), but the most obvious platform for news/magazines (text and images): html5.
I'm surprised the article does not mention firmware. It is an essential part of many electronic devices, is copyrightable, and it is not often feasible to replace it with an open-source equivalent.
This is definitely good for Facebook. I wonder what will happen to autoposting apps like IFTTT
Did we read the same post?

> The company name is Zenyth Pharmaceuticals

> Their main brand and product is ColonHelp.
You can write Em.Router.extend instead /troll. The thing is that client-side MVC is still pretty new (the initial Backbone commit is from Sept 2010 IIRC). I totally agree that a rails-like movement is necessary but I believe that Ember is the project which espouses the same values as Rails. Also, I think that Ember is somewhat similar to Rails in that for small applications, the advantage might not be that large but as the application grows in size, the advantage of using Ember becomes more apparent.
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Remember that it's only a spectrum. In Go, a lot of stuff is still not represented by the type system.
But:

1. He did pay to have an Instapaper Android app developed.

2. Being the editor for a magazine seems like it will take up a lot of time to me (even though he seems blase about it). Finding writers, chasing them down at deadline time, etc.

3. The parent didn't mention Android. I think a lot of people would be happy with a web option.
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A less interesting idea(that can make you some money) - Hack a Wordpress theme using http://underscores.me/ and Twitter Bootstrap. I did it as a weekend project last sat/sun.

Another idea :

Knowledge Explorer : Write a scraper that crawls sites like HN/Reddit/StackOverflow/Quora etc and organizes articles/questions/discussions etc in categories like "Python", "Ruby", "UX", "Machine Learning". Allow users to explore it according to these categories and sort it on basis of votes/comments/answers/etc. It will involve web scraping and machine learning. I need it personally.
I'm assuming most people on this thread have the Newsstand app buried on the last page and have explored how to remove it completely.
Article mentions the TAC, real heroes of the struggle against the ANC governments struggle against science in the war against HIV/AIDS.

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Rath#Illegal_AIDS_tria...
That doesn't necessarily mean tech writers shouldn't though.
Well, living creatures are like that, too.

You just arched an eyebrow. Simple, isn't it? Well, when you know a bit about biology...
What do you mean by a "less beefy CPU"? Once you've been able to design the new CPU and test it, it doesn't make sense to have an older/slower design. You could reduce the cache, but it would probably more expensive to build.

If one of your core is idle, the CPU will load it, if there is work to be done.
Even though I'm still an Ember noob, I've read this guide some time ago and it was the one resource that made a lot of things click. Props to sgharms.
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For WPF (.NET) applications, I've personally used MahAppsMetro (http://mahapps.com/MahApps.Metro/).

For web, I've seen code52's metroCSS (https://github.com/Code52/metro.css/) and olton's Metro UI CSS (http://metroui.org.ua/)

Both are full-blown frameworks with grids and everything and I've tried them out for my needs, but most libraries are too over the top. I needed something more stripped down for buttons that can work with Bootstrap or with my own handmade disaster.

On a sidenote, the day Microsoft adviced and pushed developers to stop calling it "Metro" and call it "Modern UI" instead (http://gizmodo.com/5933580/on-second-thought-microsoft-is-ca...), really got their own ecosystem off balance.
I think this whole article (and the other stories I've read like it) is best summed up by the last sentence: "In other news, pencil company gets sued because someone writes angry letters using pencils"
I think it's pretty incredible to see our processors finally catch up and overtake our computing requirements. If you have a first-gen i5, or even a Core 2 Duo, your CPU is plenty fast to complete 99% of computer tasks out there without feeling any sluggishness. 10 years ago, when people would come to me for advice on purchasing a laptop/desktop, I would tell them to buy the best processor they can afford and then upgrade the rest of the components while they use it. Nowadays, most decent laptops ship with an i5 at minimum, some people ask me if they should upgrade to the i7. I always tell them to save their money and spend it on a faster SSD or more ram (if the ram is <4gb).
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I wish that Google doesn't whitelist YouTube with MS so everyone migrates to Chrome, I want IE10 dead.
Making this solution works with something else than a "buddy" CPU is tricky if you assume that it's always a power of two.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm a little bothered by the fact that most of the comments have a flavor somewhere between 'meh' and castigating the author for various missteps.

Can we all at least agree that pseudoscience is bad and litigious pseudoscience is very bad?
There is only one best answer for every question, and badges, points, etc. tied to this. Whenever you have limited awards you have competition.

Stop splitting hairs.
Why is it a silly idea? Could you explain further?
> Whether it's a new job, a promotion, or launching a new startup, your career trajectory depends on your ability to recognize the good idea from the bad. Here's how to do it.

First, in "your ability to recognize the good idea from the bad", the author desperately needs to replace "recognize" with "distinguish".

Second, the article hinges on a false assumption -- that ideas and decisions can be prejudged to be good or bad, before they play out in reality. If this were true, computers could run businesses better than people.

But the premise is false -- the first casualty of battle is the battle plan, and this applies to business as well as battle.
I think his perspective closely matches what pg talks about on his article http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
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Nice. Assuming that the computation of each node is memoized, can we 'dirty' a single node, so that during the next computation only the needed parts of the graph are recomputed? This would make multiple computation of models where only a few parameters are changing much more efficient.

Also, has this at all been inspired by SecDB's powerful graph oriented features?
I'd rather use Persona to login instead of creating yet another account.
It's certainly iOS-first, but I don't see any indication that it's iOS-only. Given the iPad's position in the tablet market, it will be a while before magazine style publications (which are natural for the form-factor) give equal priority to Android.
This could be great. Most digital magazines are terrible; while this won't solve the biggest problem (the magazine itself is a superior technology for reading), it could go a long ways towards a better reading experience. NEW YORKER I'M LOOKING AT YOU.
If you'll be using bootstrap, just a heads up: I found out from a ticket someone issued in Github that Bootstrap released new icons on 2.1.1. Going to try and incorporate that in the next push :)
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One thing that I find incredibly fast and easy to do on iOS6 vs. iOS5 is implementing post-to-Facebook (and Weibo) using the new Social Framework. In iOS5, you would have to

- Register your app on Facebook

- Integrate the FB SDK (or maybe a third-party wrapper)

- Implement various authentication/delegates/callbacks

- Test that you did all of these things correctly

This might not sound like a big deal but it does save some time.
An interesting article about a project discussed from time to time here on Hacker News. It would be interesting to hear comments from HN participants in Chile about this paragraph from the article: "Another barrier to creating a vibrant start-up culture is Chile’s harsh bankruptcy regime, which makes it hard for those who fail to start afresh. Also, the economy is dominated by a few vast business empires and an extremely conservative bureaucracy. Ironically, this is threatening to stifle a peer-to-peer lending business that Mr Shea, Start-Up Chile’s founding father, recently launched."
Twitter url availability is now the immediate thing I check when I'm considering a name or URL. I've even at times opted to not go with names/urls or stall projects over it.

For my main project, someone has the @name, no tweets for over a year, 0 followers/0 following, 6 tweets total... whereas I've had the .com since before they even created the account so I was sure I'd be able to claim it. If not by their impersonation policy then by their inactivity policy. Over a month later I got the boilerplate "No."

Either Twitter has some metrics we can't see to determine "activity" or they're just not even looking.
Interesting .... Anyone know who's behind this?
Doing it as an iOS app like this also prevents you from doing "Share to Pocket / Readability" like you would be able to with a website -- keeps you from scraping the content out of the publishers site.
Looks very nice, I am gearing up to really dive into Go soon (waiting to finish up a class, to free up the time) and this looks like it will be a good resource.
Sure, the guy's an asshole and can't really expect better. But doxxing is vigilantism. In your own words, would you agree with everyone else's definition of "disgusting and degrading photos", and endorse any vigilantism against such?
All the articles are available on-line at http://the-magazine.org/1 which is useful for sharing and reading on other devices.

I wonder how much evil it would be to create an RSS feed for it.
I love this. Sadly, forking (without logging in) seems to throw up a rails error screen instead of prompting me to log in. Great work, though.
Disagree, it's perfectly constructive feedback, if not advice.

The founders have an opportunity to clear up any confusion, and we get to see that others also had an intuition that something's not quite right.
Uicollectionview was already mentioned, so I'll add autolayout to the list. Incredibly useful feature that gets rid of a lot of brittle code.
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Linode's not exactly new at this point. They've been more or less a market leader in non-AWS VMs for a while now.
I'd say it's probably the most unique idea in this thread, given that most HNers likely wouldn't normally think of dealing/selling drugs as being particularly creative.
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>I think Stallman is far too extremist

The more I see of Apple, Microsoft, and others, the less I think so. I certainly don't see eye-to-eye with him on everything, but it's becoming clear to me that we need alternatives that fit his criteria.

Cell phone and tablet operating systems that are completely open, easy to modify (and easy to distribute modifications), and easy to use from a consumer point of view would change my world. I'd use it in a heartbeat, and I dearly hope this is what Firefox OS will be.

I'd like to see a world that's more accommodating for Stallman. I'd also like to see a world that's less accommodating for Facebook et al.
Very unconvincing. There are two issues at hand - "is sloppy code technical debt?" and "is sloppy code excusable?"

The headline implies it's going to take on the former but the article itself only addresses the latter.
I would like to thank you for building this. With the large number of courses currently being offered, evaluation of the courses is valuable not just to prospective students, but for the course organizers and instructors themselves.
Yes, this. But how the average user would respond to it and maybe a better question, on which type of websites that would make total sense?

I mean, would persona fit the e-commerce business just fine?
The PM tried saying it was a matter of mistake and not conspiracy. BS. They were clearly conspiring with U.S. elements to take him down.
> Today, it seems like Apple have convinced the market that 'closed' is OK ...

Yes, to the degree that Microsoft has decided to imitate the Apple model. It seems Microsoft has closed Windows 8 to third-part applications (except pre-existing ones operating in compatibility mode). All Windows 8 apps that depend on Windows 8 features can only be gotten from Microsoft directly, in an obvious imitation of the App store:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/developers-windows-8/

What's worse, these cyber-birdcages seem wildly popular.
I'm not a software developer by trade, but I do tinker. I've thought I understood pointers fine, but maybe I don't. Can someone who does expand on Linus' comment regarding deleting an entry from a singly linked list?

I understood the example he lamented, and probably would have done exactly that. I didn't understand his pointer to a pointer example though.
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I like the fact there are no information overload. No odds, no team streaks etc. this is dumb down version. Super!
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how convenient ;)
Those are excerpts :/
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Thanks for your reply, you're totally right about the features priority, I think I'll have to just wait for a couple of weeks to make sure that at least there is no obvious bugs and security holes.
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Not by half. More like "bookstore gets sued for selling defaming material;" the posts were hosted on wordpress.com.

The lawsuit is asking Wordpress to take down the posts or the blog, which is well within Wordpress' power.
So if you’re dealing with, say hypothetically (not a client), Bank of America, you will not budge the Bank of America purchasing department, because they just don’t care

ProTip: Make friends in the purchasing department and learn their rules. There are often ways to game the system...

For example: Some may have a global rule that they must take advantage of any discount greater than N% on the invoice if it's just a case of moving the payment date. Offer an N+1% discount for payment up front to that department and you will automatically have payment up front. Suddenly your cashflow looks much happier ;-)

(edit: Also - you never punish people for late payment. You reward people for early payment. Of course the numbers may look the same either way ;-)
I run an e-commerce business and it works great. Persona really fits in well for all websites and when it is eventually integrated directly into the browsers, it'll be even more of a non-issue.

The more sites that adopt Persona, the more that the UX design and differences between sites will become a non-issue and posts like this where the designers are inventing yet another way of doing things will stop. Persona provides a clean standard interface that everyone knows how to use and even better... a single login.
I have a similar app (http://pickmoto.com) for iPhone and iPad. It's clear that we can't legally use the logos without a license. But of course the leagues aren't going to pay attention to indie developers until they are genuine threats. At that point, maybe you could afford to pay for the license or work something out.

We decided against risking it with logos because Apple could yank us at a moment's notice even if we made it into the Store. And considering that some of the best selling apps are developed by the Leagues, we imagine Apple would be pretty quick to act if the Leagues asked.

So instead, we're using pennants without logos. Not ideal, but safer.
Having just built a bathroom, I can say that in my situation, confused people spend way more money. Certainty with decisions is way cheaper in a building scenario.
This sounds very useful. I'm having trouble understanding the nature of the system, though, because I don't really understand lisp / clojure. Is this a pattern that could be applied in any language with first class functions, or does it require a lisp to be practical?
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From The Elements of Programming Style by Kernighan and Plauger: “Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?”
If you just want the good stuff, it is at https://gobyexample.com/
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I don't remember it ever being common to have to buy hardware from a specific vendor in order to read the news, a magazine or a book.
Sure, but verroq was talking about vector spaces and linear maps, not matrices. The theory of vector spaces over a field is more general and can be applied to much more than systems of equations.
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This is great. I'm still fairly new to programming and all my experience until now has been confined to dynamically-typed, interpreted languages (other than a little dabbling into C for learning's sake), so I'm really appreciative of any efforts to clearly illustrate new languages to newbies like me. I would love to see something like this for Haskell or Clojure if anyone knows of any good links.
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While I agree the title of the original article should be changed, I like my HN titles generally the same as the article.
Is it me, or are the proportions of a least the first graphic off?

Here are the data is in Wolfram|Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(0,+654.6),+(0,+536.3). I don't think W|A supports bar charts for some reason.

Edward Tufte would not be pleased.
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No, but "The Band" was.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Band
Charging a little less than market value is definitely a winning strategy if you can afford it - a tenant who feels like they're getting a good deal is going to be a better tenant.
It's also important to note that they're not just being asked to carry identification cards, because the students had previous identification cards without the chip that the school is saying aren't valid anymore. The difference between the old card, which doesn't work, and the new card, which does, is the chip. To me, this means that they're being chipped.

There's two problems here from my perspective. One is the invasion of privacy, which is just ridiculous. There's no justifiable reason for this Giving people the ability to track the location of another person at any time is wrong.

Second is that this "solution" is the wrong way to go about solving their problem. Their issue is that people aren't attending schools, and, thus, the school is losing money. If you were approached with a problem of "people aren't going to school" would your solution be "let's put RFID chips on them?" That's nowhere near an effective solution. This idea punishes both children who do attend and children who do not attend. An ideal solution wouldn't need to punish anyone, but raise attendance through positive and supportive means, such as offering incentives to attend school.
Good luck! I'm trying the same thing myself with http://yata.ca. It's more of a party game played with the iOS device, and thought the interactivity with people in the same room would add to the fun. Hope all's well with the second one!
But that design language and how it is used to create context is what the Metro ("Modern"?) guidelines provide. There's a lot of stuff here for example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windows/apps/hh46542...
I'm glad you've found a pocket of the company that you enjoy working in. But the CEO is a sociopath, and that's bound to cause some trickle-down unpleasantness in the future. It already has, the company just changed its ways when it got bad press.
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Somewhat - to them anyway, permission is "granted" by you choosing not to opt-out. It's a crazy, muddled-up, mixed up world.
Most people don't care about maps on iPad nearly as much as on iPhone. I don't think limiting to iOS6 on iPad should be so bad.
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Instead of pointing to a node, then dereferencing node's 'next' field, you can point directly to the 'next' field of a node (which is a pointer itself), and directly update it, as Linus shows. This eliminates the special handling of list head.

// Trying to remember C syntax
prev_link ** Node;
// **prev_link == previous_node->next
for (prev_link = &list_head; cur_entry = **prev_link; cur_entry != NULL) {
if (must_remove(cur_entry)) {
**prev_link = cur_entry->next; // exclude cur_entry
break;
}
}
I found this app before the season started. I've been playing it with some friends of mine and it's a lot of fun, you did a great job!
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When you start the list traversal, you would have something like

Node** link = list_head

and as you traverse, you would do

link = &(entry->next)

Then, when you find the entry that you want to delete, link points to either (a) list_head if you are deleting the first entry or (b) the next pointer of the previous entry. Either way, doing

*link = entry->next

does the trick.

This way, you save on the conditional branch.
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AFAIK, Canary is like Nightly and Dev is a state snapshot of Canary updated once or twice per week.

Rereading your original comment, I see that by "faster"releases you meant to increase the number of testers sooner, not uplift the channels sooner. If Mozilla did that, the Nightly channel might need more stabilization before
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the latter (large, often family-based businesses) is certainly true. also, earthquakes[ * ]. jeez.

[ * ] http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000d4jf#...
I think they consider that recursive.

However, all the major implementations (SBCL, Clozure CL, Franz Allegro, LispWorks, CMUCL, and I think even ECL) do tail-call elimination on local calls. (A local call is a call to a function whose definition is lexically visible, such as the calls to 'helper' in your example.) The document says that TCE depends on optimization settings, but for local calls, I'm not sure even that is true. Anyway, the practical upshot, in my experience, is that there's no reason not to write loops recursively using LABELS when that is the most elegant expression of the particular loop in question.

(There was once a major implementation that never did TCE -- Genera -- but even for die-hard Lisp Machine lovers like myself, it has long since been relegated to a historical curiosity.)
Mark, I'm curious to know if you find yourself using Go or Clojure more these days.

They're quite different languages, so I was surprised to see a bunch of Go libraries in your Github after using a bunch of Clojure gear you'd written over the years.
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The company in question is located in Romania http://www.zenyth.com/contact.html

Did they sue in an American court?
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